Gold has been the most honoured and revered metal from time immemorial. It has often been used as a symbol for the Sun – radiating power and glory.

To gold represents physical, mental and spiritual perfection. Gold is found in its natural form as nuggets in streams and as veins in rocks. It is ductile and malleable thus making gold the ideal stuff for making jewellery.

The gold engagement ring has special significance. The ring is a circle – the circle being the most universal common sign across the globe since ancient times.

It has no beginning and no end. It has no divisions and therefore is the perfect symbol standing for completeness and eternity.

Contradictorily it also denotes boundary as well as enclosure of completion and returning again and again to cycles. Thus it is the most common symbol of union between man and woman whether as a wedding or a gold engagement ring.

Thus the gold engagement ring stands for the beginning of a new life. The gold engagement ring encircles the finger that is closest to the heart symbolically encircling the heart.

The gold engagement ring is a pledge of love and fidelity. The two sentiments are enclosed and bound in the gold engagement ring. The gold engagement ring represents the joining of two arcs pregnant wish and manifestation of creation.

The two arms joined to form the magic circle of the gold engagement ring represents the physical and mental union of two beings; the union of the body and the soul or of matter and spirit.

The gold engagement ring may be a plain band but usually it is encrusted with gems or adorned with fine filigree work. The golden band is often etched with designs ranging from animals to stars and flowers.

Inside the ring the date of the engagement is often carved subtly.

The gold engagement ring is often kept as a family heirloom and handed down from one generation to another. So too only two conjoined together by the durable circle of the ring engaged together or wedded together representing the shining durability of human civilization on this Earth. The gold engagement ring stands for equality between man and woman each in his or her sphere.